Arne Kovac


Director of Undergraduate Studies

Teaching

Nonparametric Regression (MATH M6004) Time Series Analysis (MATH 35200) Advanced Statistical Topics (MATH M4400, taught in 2006) Technical writing

Research Interests

Publications

Kovac A. (2014) Seconder of the vote of thanks in discussion of K. Frick, A. Munk and H. Sieling, Multiscale change point inference Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 76. p543-544.

Kovac, A. and Smith, A.D.A.C. (2011) Nonparametric Regression on a Graph Journal of Computational Graphics and Statistics. 20. p432-447. ( Full Paper )

Davies, P. L. and Kovac, A. (2009) Quantifying the cost of simultaneous non-parametric approximation of several samples. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 3. p747-780. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Davies, P.L., Kovac, A. and Meise, M. (2009) Nonparametric Regression, Confidence Regions and Regularization. Annals of Statistics. 37. p2597-2625. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Dümbgen, L. and Kovac, A. (2009) Extensions of Smoothing via Taut Strings. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 3. p41-75. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac A. (2007) Proposal of the vote of thanks in discussion of J. O. Ramsay, G. Hooker, D. Campbell and J. Cao, Parameter estimation for differential equations: a generalized smoothing approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 69. p770-772.

Kovac, A. (2007) Multiresolution and Model Choice Oberwolfach Reports. 4. p2978-2980. ( Full Paper )

Obereder, A., Scherzer, O. and Kovac, A. (2007) Bivariate density estimation using BV regularisation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 51. p5622-5634. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac, A. (2007) Smooth functions and local extreme values. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 51. p5156-5171. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac, A. (2006) Curves and Modality. Oberwolfach Reports. 3. p2971-2975. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Davies, P. L. and Kovac, A. (2004) Densities, Spectral Densities and Modality. Annals of Statistics. 32. p1093-1136. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac, A. (2002) Robust nonparametric regression and modality. in: Developments in Robust Statistics, R. Dutter, P. Filzmoser, U. Gather, P. Rousseeuw (eds.), Physica, Heidelberg, p218-227. ( Full Paper )

Davies, P. L. and Kovac, A. (2001) Local Extremes, Runs, Strings and Multiresolution (with discussion). Annals of Statistics. 29. p1-65. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac, A. and Silverman, B.W. (2000) Extending the Scope of Wavelet Regression Methods by Coefficient-dependent Thresholding. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 95. p172-183. ( Full Paper ) ( Abstract )

Kovac, A. (1998) Wavelet Thresholding for Unequally Time-Spaced Data. PhD thesis, University of Bristol (Thesis and software)

Kovac, A. (1996) Robuste nicht-parametrische Regression mit Wavelets. Diploma Thesis, University of Essen (Thesis)

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Arne Kovac

School of Mathematics
University of Bristol
University Walk
Bristol BS8 1TW
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)117 33 17088
Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7999
Room number: 3.10
Email: A.Kovac at bristol.ac.uk



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